H: 11/1/20: Chosen 4: “The Rock on Which it is Built”

Have you ever done all you think you could have done and still experienced a personal failure? In this message, you’ll identify with someone like this. Hear how a fisherman’s failure set him up for a miraculous encounter with Jesus and radical transformation into being a fisher of men!

• 1.  What was highlighted for you in the weekend sermon?
• 2.  For Simon, his lay net was what gave him his identity as a fisherman.  What would you say is your lay net(s)?
• 3.  Has there ever been a time that your lay net has let you down?  How so?
• 4.  How has Jesus show up in those times when your lay net let you down?  What were your responses to Jesus in those times?
• 5.  Paul says in 2 Corinthians 5:17, “This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun !” (NLT)  How is this truth a reality in your life?
• 6.  Peter writes this in 1 Peter 2:9, “But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.” (NLT).   Reflect upon and discuss this truth.
• 7.  How do you personally respond to Jesus’ call to follow him and become fishers of men?